Those small containers like Altoid big and small, Succrets, CCI Black Powder cap tins, metal, wood and plastic boxes, tubes and rounds of all kinds and shapes.
Why do our hearts flutter a little bit or our breathing ever so slowly increases when we see these and other containers?
While in the cash register line and you see all those containers, you immediately start thinking what you will put in them. You run things through your head and start a list of things for fire, water, shelter, safety, food, signalling and protection. You wonder, will that old pocket knife fit it or that new fire steel you bought...shall it hang on the outside or be on the inside.
So you grab the container of MushBerryMint throat drops...you get em home and you empty the drops into a plastic baggie and toss it in the junk drawer...but first you taste one and decide instead to just throw them away in the trash.
Now you go about finding things in all your hidey hole spots and that box of stuff you keep buying, finding and scrounging of items that you know will be perfect for a a nice personal survival kit.
So your items are something like this:::
small knife and/or a razor blade of some kind like exacto #11
fire starting mag/fero/steel
book of matches or a few hurricane matches
some kind of tinder
button compass
water pure tabs
2'x1' piece of tin foil folded up
small fishing kit
needles & thread
small cordage/line/twine
3' of rolled up duct tape
signal mirror
copper or other wire
wire saw
band aids
small packet of neosporin
aspirin or other pain meds
cut off sawz all blade
...and other objects that the owner feels suited to their needs and conditions.
Why do WE do it.... I guess for some small senses of security that we have available a small pocket or personal survival kit(s). In some small way, they give us comfort from all the evil things in the world. Some of us feel we must make one for all theeir friends and family. Yet others just make themselves one.
...then the kit goes into some stragic place and others place them in their coats, cars, desks at work etc.....you knowing that your kit is much better than so in so's and dang, not as good as that guy that took pics of his and posted about it. But you know that if there was some type of award for PSK's, yours was sure to win at some level.
So, now you have had a chance to sit down and watch TV.... you roll your new kit around in your head of what to add or take away and justify the reason.....there ya go, opening the kit and re-arranging, adding to or taking away various items, justifying the space used up for the items....you close it up and reseal it and re-store it for use.
Each day, you have to touch your kit, maybe open it, in your mind using the items.....if caught in the woods and need to survive you go through scenarios in your head and think if what you would do first....Oh thats it... Fire First....then think about shelter....then comes the stumper for most tin can kit survivors...where to find water and how to make it safe. This whole scenario rolls through your head.........and finally you are drifting off to sleep. Dreams of when and where or how you will use that survival kit.
You see ads or walk through an outdoors store and see ready made survival kits in a tin... you immediately pick it up and compare the contents to yours...then you SCOUF at the price and drop it like it had a contagen of some sort. You think to yourself, what on gods earth would make a small tin survival kit worth $29.95.
In the end... you justify your need to make small survival kits as a way to fight back from evil, mother nature or other ills of the world. You defend your kits contents against other PSK makers in forums, blogs and yes, even the elusive Snail Mail .......you sometimes even wonder why that other person made their kit that way or this way.
...you often dream of your destiny in this world and your kit(s). You wonder will there ever be a time you must use your kit on a hike, outting, fishing or hunting trek. Some times you even practice using it....making a small fire in the BBQ or making a natural shelter at a downed tree on your property....always think can you do it, can you make it...will your camp be enough to get you through that first 96 hours because you know that 96 is the new 72. You then re-fill your kit with the used supplies, take inventory in your mind and vow o find that one odd item you forgot and figure out how to over stuff your kit.
...as you coninue in your life long quest to be prepped at all kinds of levels... your PSK means much more to you than mere survival or existance...it means you have thought ahead, you are prepped for that weather event and sadly know some of your co-workers, friends and family have not. Will they make it through, will I need to go rescue them.
We, us preppers, will continue to better our kits as we learn more and more about what it means to Survive and Thrive in adverse conditions. You escalate your kits into other, larger kits, different levels...reasons are justified in some manner.... until you make them so heavy that 2 men and a boy could not haul em... then you find ways to haul them, horses, 4x4 trekkers, home built aircraft, boats, motorcycles.... each with their own PSK at so many different levels that you sometimes find it hard to believe that every person on the planet does not have at least one PSK..... you see disasters happen all around the world and know that if those people just had a PSK, they could have survived if they survived the initial event, what ever it was or is.
Some of us will even reduce our kits as our knowledge increases, we will need less gear as our skills increase and our knowledge expands. We tend to want to help other would be preppers into their new world of prepdom. We grow happy at their first fire, their first shelter and their first PSK.......
Join me in showing your various containers.....not the contents, but rather the containers you will choose for your PSK(s)
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